Peter Giles

Halfway through the game, the 5v5 numbers for Texier-Danault-Anderson, per @naturalstattrick.com :

CF-CA: 11-1
SF-SA: 3-0
XGF-XGA: 0.41-0
HDCF-HDCA: 3-0

Ya know, Montembeault is probably not going to play for the Habs for the rest of the year. It would be great if people could stop making disparaging comments.

The way the offside rule is enforced right now is a black eye for the NHL.

Goal is overturned. The offside came 29 seconds before the goal. Make it stop.

TVA saying he’s gone to hospital for observation.

Top line was on the ice when the penalty was called, that might have played a role.

The TVA feed here in NS was a bit glitchy earlier. Might try again later

I need an “AI agent” or whatever for my smart TV that will remove Gary Galley’s voice from the soundtrack #GoHabsGo

It is truly getting unbearable.

The game is on TVA also, which may have to be an acceptable alternative tonight.

Sure, let’s spend most of the pre-game show talking about the Leafs! Why not.

NEVER OUT OF IT 😤

Sarah Wozniewicz tied the game with under a minute left before Rebecca Leslie buried @pwhlcharge.bsky.social’s OT game-winner!

Whatever else you can say about Team USA, their energy *perfectly* matches the energy the United States is presenting to the rest of the world right now.

CANADIEN contre les Sharks, avec pas Brendan Gallagher:

Caufield-Suzuki-Slafkovsky
Newhook-Kapanen-Demidov
Bolduc-Evans-Dach
Texier-Danault-Anderson

Matheson-Dobson
Guhle-Hutson
Struble-Carrier

Dobes
Fowler

Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

If you are confused about what Goaltender Interference is, please consult "The Chart"

Point projections over the past fortnight.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

it's deeply embarrassing that team usa is treating the wbc like a military operation while every other team is just having a lot of fun

Gallagher being healthy-scratched isn't so surprising after all - he hasn't been playing very many minutes and if you don't trust him to defend then there's not so much reason to dress him.

Facebook post cldecrying a residential development o a dying mall because of its impact on parking.

"Don't develop in my neighbourhood, develop somewhere else"

*development clusters on the site of a dying mall and its ocean of parking*

"No, no! My parking!"

#Habs Martin St. Louis on scratching Brendan Gallagher

"These are not easy decisions. But we have good communication. I think the schedule helps us in that regard. Gallagher will play tomorrow; he’ll be fresh for that game. We currently have depth at forward that allows us to do this."

#GoHabsGo

So here's a thread that should probably be an essay about sports gambling.

Luke Mittelstadt signs ELC with the Montreal Canadiens It’s a two-year deal for the 23-year-old defenceman selected in the seventh round in 2023.

Luke Mittelstadt signs entry-level contract with the Montreal Canadiens

So despite all the work and finesse and expertise and lucre that it takes to run a sportsbook, the load-bearing part of why gambling exists at all is because of differences in knowledge about those probabilities, differences which are entirely external, structurally.

The probabilities themselves are incredibly interesting things, because to compute them to arbitrary precision is in essence to understand the sport completely, which is a sort of silly way of formulating why I find my job so satisfying, because it's research about a part of the world I like.

But the quantitativeness of sports at their heart is part of what makes them such a natural fit, structurally, with gambling. The probabilities (of who will win, who will score first, &c.) that gambling is based off are themselves are more sensibly-defined objects when they're about sports.

The number of Europeans travelling to the US has cratered under Trump Year-on-year change in visitors to the US, by country of origin (%) Austria Denmark Germany 2024 2025 2024 2025 2024 2025 Iceland 2024 2025 +20% +10% +0% -10% -20% -30% N Trump Norway 2024 2025 Spain 2024 2025 Sweden 2024 UK 2025 2024 2025 +20% +10% +0% -10% -20% -30% Source: International Trade Administration. U.S. Department of Commerce

Those are some steep drops

Ice crew grabbed it before a full rotation, but still met with roars from the crowd

Good.

I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.